> Has this been addressed yet for 1.6? It is probably an easy fix. > The original poster claimed it took 4 seconds to start Python on > his machine. In 1.6, winsound is a separate subproject and hence a separately loadable DLL, so it doesn't slow down the main code. Ditto for socket and a few others. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)